I am seriously in a state of shock this morning!

Is it really the last Monday of November?

Meaning that the next one is in DECEMBER?

Which means Christmas is kinda just around the corner?

And I have hardly anything ready for that day???

AND…

We only have one month left of the year?!?

Three and a half weeks left of school, so there will be a lot of squeezing Christmassy things in, alongside the usual learning. One week is practically blocked out for Christmas performances – There are four different ones, and each has two slots. The half week at the end is filled with panto visits and class Christmas parties!

So, that’s just TWO weeks of real learning time left, within which I also have a formal observation to fit in, AND I have to, along with my Eco Council partner, arrange a Toy Swap sale for the kids, AND not forgetting another Governors meeting to finish the term off!

EEK!!!!

And while I’m on the subject, of How the Flibbertygibbets Did That Happen?… Since when did my nine-year-old decide she no longer believes in Father Christmas?!

I hoped to have at least one more year of the letters to Santa, and the PNP videos to show her, before the reality that Father Christmas is really mummy and daddy sinks in!

Instead, the last couple of months have been littered with ‘present opportunities’ where she has shown us what she wants us to buy her for Christmas, because she just, you know, knows it’s us who buys the stuff, not the Big Fat Fella in Red!

I am not ready for this!

I still kinda believe in the magic of Saint Nick!

Okay… let me get my shocked-self ready for school now, but really….

HOW THE FLIBBERTYGIBBETS DID THAT HAPPEN?????